Starting with a photograph that Lei Lei (present in 2016 IndieLisboa with Missing One Player and in 2017 with Books on Books) and his mother took at the end of the eighties, the artist reflects about images as nostalgia archives and fusion of collective and individual memories.
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Analysis of memories that start in a car/set and then grow into real cars, perfect transport objects to revisit time as a true still and moving image experience. Other objects and spaces come together, supporting an impression of time that moves in constant evocation. A film of an analytical and sensitive nature that goes from the personal to the collective, opening us to a beautiful diary full of life. (Carlota Gonçalves)
The film departs from the collective visual memory made from over 3000 drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a native people from Brazil. In these we see a learning process, but also the violence they were subjugated during the military dictatorship
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The drawings made in the ’70s by the Waimiri-Atroari during their literacy process serve as the basis for Apiyemiyekî?. In them, we can see and read the testimonies and reactions of these indigenous people of the Amazon to the violence and atrocities perpetrated against them by the whites during the Brazilian military dictatorship. In a film anchored in the past, reverberating in a present with which it shares too many similarities, Vaz reproduces with intelligence and intention an original listening gesture essential to the understanding of a community. (Ana David)
To see with one’s hands. A picture was taken by someone on the day of Tunisia’s independence, in 1956. Awarded at Rotterdam, this film shows us that image, opaque in the light, but revealed, piece by piece, by the choreography and movement of the hands.
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A film that unfolds through the magical and exploratory touch of the image as a piece, where hands become living shadows, revealing more image that is also memory, allowing us to discover human figures and advancing back in time. Permeable image, transparent, highly sensitive to gesture; a gesture that will create the intimacy of a brief, delicate and singularly haptic moment: “To touch is to see”, as Ismaïl Bahri tells us. (Carlota Gonçalves)
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VanLoo filmed Schwarzenegger in the 1970’s in a bodybuilding contest. The original 16mm material was used in an art installation that is now lost. The images remained, with the poses, no sound, and the human living sculpture gaining a new power with the passing of time.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Art of Bodybuilding consists of unseen images shot in 16mm by Babeth van Loo during the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding contest in 1976. It’s a reflection on the relation of the physical body and art. Arnold sculpts his own body to match the ideals of the male body imagined by the renaissance artists, therefore he becomes art himself. Unfiltered but carefully sculpted art to be something as ephemeral as it is eternal. (Rui Mendes)
This was the day when diagrams got mad, graphics started to dance and the age pyramids got really hot. Gehrig ironizes about the normative power of statistics and the efficient Powerpoint presentations.
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Let that who never dozed off during a PowerPoint presentation be the first one to cast a stone. What happens when the statistical diagrams themselves get bored to death? A short film of sensual curves and an above-average sense of humour. (Ana David)
A French-Vietnamese director deserts the movie set where she was filming a version of Dangerous Liaisons by Laclos, to board a ghost ship. After Atlantiques, Diop wins again best short film at Rotterdam Festival with this fantasy.
A short about Ingmar Bergman’s power, sexuality and a facial lipoma that gives him no rest.
João lives in São Paulo. He goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, some unknown.
During the summer of 1990 in Chile, a small group of families lives in an isolated community, in the aftermath of end of the dictatorship. In this time of change and reckoning, Sofía, Lucas and Clara struggle with parents, first love, and fears.
It’s summer on an amusement park in the Paris suburbs. A land of adventures, flirting and transgression for some, a place to hide out or take a break for others. It’s like a childhood kingdom waiting to be explored, resonating with the turmoil of today’s society.
1992. The last heirs of a traditional family from the state of Minas Gerais mysteriously disappear. 2017. A box with VHS tapes reveals homemade records of their last days on the family’s farm.
One night, Rafael came home to discover that some people were looking for him. He fled, without looking back, and his life changed.
This is an highly staged biographical documentary where legend and fact merge into Marcelo Diorio’s character, the host of his open anus and his past lives. Here his traumas (abuses and HIV) become tragicomedy and his subversive charm leaves no one indifferent.
“Journey to the Magic Waterfall” is a sentimental journey through vintage game aesthetics: a character with a pitiful life is granted a wish, having a lovely singing voice.
“Martin pleure” presents us a romantic hooligan.
Lucas goes out with Anaïs. It’s the first time she comes to his home. His father, Pierre Woodman, the famous pornographer, went on holidays.
In a land of mountains and forests, a young man no longer recognizes his dogs.
